Bottle-cap lifter.



H. I. WEED.

BOTTLE GAP LIFTER APPLICATION FILED 00T.18, 1911.

1 100 933 Patented June 23,1914,

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BOTTLE-CAP LIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Application filed October 18, 1911. Serial No. 655,432.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HELEN ISABELLA NEED, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Cap Lifters; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of my invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in lifters for removing caps from milk and other bottles, where the cap is made of material readily punctured.

The objects of my invention are to provide simple and effective means for lifting said caps and to construct said means in a cheap manner that will lend merit to the same as an article of manufacture.

My invention consists broadly of a fork having a single sharp pointed tine and one or more spurs projecting from said fork behind said tine.

The details of construction of my lifter in various forms embodying my invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings and are herein described and their use is eX- plained and what I claim is set forth.

In the figures, Figure 1 illustrates a curved form of my lifter having two spurs and placed in position on a cap. In Fig. 2 is shown a form of my invention adapted to be constructed of wire.

The parts of my device as illustrated in the figures are numbered as follows:

In Fig. 1 1 is the body or handle of one form of my lifter, said handle terminating below in a tine having a point 2 shown penetrated into a cap 6. 3 and 4 are spurs extending below from the lower part of the handle 1. 5 is a hole near the upper end of the handl 1 positioned for convenience in hanging up the lifter when not in use. The cap 6 is shown resting within the broken top 6 of a bottle.

In Fig. 2, a handle 1 is formed by wire wound around a straight piece of wire marked 12, which terminates in a pointed tine 18. The wire forming the outside of the handle 11 is shown made of one piece, the ends 14 and 15 of which form spurs, while a loop 16 is formed at the upper end of the piece 12 by the same wire.

In operation, referring to Fig. 1, the point 2 is inserted in the cap 6 and the handle 1 is rocked back until the points 3 and 4 engage the cap and act ointly as a fulcrum in maintaining the relative position of the lifter on the cap, whereby a further rocking back of the handle 1 causes the cap to turn up on that part of it resting under the handle and on the bottle. The part of the cap ahead. of the point 2, at the same time leaves the bottle allowing air to enter under it, destroying any suction effect and the cap is then easily carried away with the lifter.

Having described my invention, I claim- An instrument for lifting paper caps from milk bottles comprising a handle terminating in a relatively long prong for piercing the cap, said prong being disposed in advance of two relatively short prongs which are positioned equidistant from the long prong and spaced from each other, said short prongs also piercing the cap to prevent withdrawal of the long prong from the cap and to serve as a fulcrum when the handle is rocked rearwardly to lift the cap.

HELEN ISABELLA WEED.

IVitnesses:

B. M. HUNT, A. M. HUNT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

